'Changsa'brilliant orange-red sweet, but insipid seedy. Mandarin cultivars fall into several classes: The fruits are tender and readily damaged by cold. Mandarin oranges are much more cold-hardy than the sweet orange, and the tree is more tolerant of drought. For commercial exploitation, mandarins have several disadvantages: the fruit has poor holding capacity on the tree, the peel is tender and therefore the fruits do not stand shipping well, and the tree has a tendency toward alternate bearing. These fruits have never been as popular in western countries as they are in the Orient, Coorg, a mountainous region of the Western Ghats, in India, is famous for its mandarin oranges. There is limited culture in Guatemala and some other areas of tropical America. The 1971-72 crop was 170,000 MT, of which, 8,600 MT were exported to the United States and lesser amounts to East Germany, Canada and Argentina. Mexico has overproduced tangerines, resulting in low market value and cessation of plantings. The commercial cultivation of mandarin oranges in the United States has developed mostly in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi and, to a lesser extent, in Texas, Georgia and California. Barrington of McMeskin, Florida, and seedlings from there were distributed and led to commercial propagation. In 1892 or 1893, 2 fruits of 'Ponkan' were sent from China to J.C. Seeds of the 'Oneco' mandarin were obtained from India by the nurseryman, P.W.

The latter sent 2 seedlings to Winter Park, Florida. Six fruits of the 'King' mandarin were sent from Saigon in 1882 to a Dr. The 'Owari' Satsuma arrived from Japan, first in 1876 and next in 1878, and nearly a million budded trees from 1908 to 1911 for planting in the Gulf States. It was carried from there to Florida and later reached California. Sometime between 18, the 'Willow-leaf' or 'China Mandarin' was imported by the Italian Consul and planted at the Consulate in New Orleans. They were adopted into cultivation in the Mediterranean area and, by 1850, were well established in Italy. Two varieties from Canton were taken to England in 1805. Therefore, the history of its spread can be roughly traced in the chronology of separate introductions. It gravitated to the western world by small steps taken by individuals interested in certain cultivars. It is most abundantly grown in Japan, southern China, India, and the East Indies, and is esteemed for home consumption in Australia. The mandarin orange is considered a native of south-eastern Asia and the Philippines. Seeds are small, pointed at one end, green inside. The fruit is oblate, the peel bright-orange or red-orange when ripe, loose, separating easily from the segments. The flowers are borne singly or a few together in the leaf axils. The tree is usually thorny, with slender twigs, broad-or slender-lanceolate leaves having minute, rounded teeth, and narrowly-winged petioles. With great age, some may reach a height of 25 ft (7.5 m) with a greater spread. The mandarin tree may be much smaller than that of the sweet orange or equal in size, depending on variety.

37: Easily-peeled Mandarin oranges ( Citrus reticulata) are ideal for eating out-of-hand and very popular in Central America.

Spanish-speaking people in the American tropics call them mandarina.įig. In the Philippines all mandarin oranges are called naranjita. The name 'tangerine' could be applied as an alternate name to the whole group, but, in the trade, is usually confined to the types with red-orange skin. These are treated as members of a distinct species, Citrus reticulata Blanco. Mandarin is a group name for a class of oranges with thin, loose peel, which have been dubbed 'kid-glove' oranges. Mandarin Orange Index | Search | Home | Morton

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